~ Clear fits this album on the first listening to Electroclash excellent fashion, but somehow it is then quite different. Shrill, beautiful - banal, brilliant - cheaper, more valuable - geklauter (in Arcade / Atari), novel (so consistently by Telespiel sounded none). Six months ago, at the first hearing the album I thought spontaneously: Look at what you can do with so little resources. Meanwhile, I think the two but for quite callous, but only with regard to the production craft, because even if all sounds very improvised and raw, so it's fairly complex. Musically, all very fresh, wild, arrogant and boisterous - young and unconsumed precisely. And what the album holds together despite its brutal change of mood between angels singing (Tell me what to swallow) and sheer noise with shouting, are these adorable melodies. A good friend and musician once said, in a beautiful melody, it does not matter how it is interpreted, this album is a very good example. Alice Glass is this the perfect front woman, a bundle of energy unparalleled, magical eyes like a cat, but also fragile and aloof. And so are the weakest points of at least 16 in number but rather the instrumental, although they are well laid out, but eventually could be missing something. We can only hope that the two little lose their originality, but still mature a bit and the next album is a little easier to love, because this brutal back and forth between Electropop à la Boytronic and Hardtechpunk in Atariland is straight barely listenable. - Here also the fifth point is fallen by the wayside.
Far more than just a few zusammengesamplete Arcade Sounds from Space Invaders, Pac Man or Cristal Castles even if it sounds at first so. Remarkable in every respect.
